JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An 8-year-old boy suffered non-life threatening injuries after being shot in the foot during New Year's Eve festivities on Jacksonville's Riverwalk.

Lt. Jimmy Judge with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said police received a call about a child being shot three minutes before midnight.

Lt. Judge said that a couple minutes before the call the 8-year-old boy, identified as Luke Whitehead in a JSO police report, was on the Southbank Riverwalk with his family waiting for the fireworks to start.

The boy told his father, Asa Whitehead, that something hit him in his foot and that it really hurt, Lt. Judge said.

When the boy's father checked the child's shoe, Judge said the dad found a bullet. The boy's father then took the child to a police officer working in the area.